W3C

– DRAFT –
8th WoT Charter Meeting - Day 1

27 March 2023

Attendees

Present
Cristiano_Aguzzi, Daniel_Peintner, Ege_Korkan, Jan_Romann, Kaz_Ashimura, Luca_Barbato, Michael_McCool, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
Ben, Lagally
Chair
McCool
Scribe
cris_, luca_barbato

Meeting minutes

Resources

<kaz> McCool's message on using both the Scripting slot and the Security slot for the Charter discussion on Monday, March 27 (Member-only)

<McCool> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22WG+New+Charter+Plans+2023%22+type%3Aissue

<McCool> https://github.com/w3c/wot-charter-drafts/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22WG+New+Charter+Plans+2023%22+type%3Apr

PR

PR 87

<McCool> PR 87 - Update wot-wg-2023-draft.html - Revised Introduction

McCool: Some discussions updated, Ben has a small comment
… discussion on naming: model, abstraction, description
… the comment is updated with how we came up with description from the original model

McCool: The suggestion made by Ben can be addressed in a new PR

<cris_> +1

McCool: and merge 87 as-is

Kaz: We should update the motivation section with, e.g., counter fragmentation and wider industry adoption.

McCool: Let's add an issue about it

<McCool> w3c/wot-charter-drafts#100

McCool: <read the initial charter statement>

Ege: What are our decision regarding mentioning the Interest Group

McCool: Let's discuss in a separate PR

McCool: Consensus on merging the PR as-is?

McCool: PR merged.

McCool: Let's open an issue regarding Ben's comment

PR 66

<McCool> PR 66 - Move IG mention to collaboration section

<kaz> diff

McCool: Let's clean up the PR 66 conflict and move the sections
… the PR needs a rebase

Kaz: Removing the sentence about the WoT IG from the Mission statement is fine. Also keeping the text about the WoT IG within the Motivation section is fine.
… On the other hand, it would be better to clarify the relationship among WG, IG, WoT CG and WoT-JP CG. A brief sentence about that can be put right below the section title of "5.1 WoT-related W3C Groups".

McCool: The current pr is a step in the right direction we could add another paragraph about it in another PR.
… ML wants to clarify the process that goes from the requirements to the actual specification

McCool: Does it belong to the Mission statement?

McCool: <fixing the PR 66 patch conflicts>

McCool: Consensus on the edit?

<kaz> merged

PR 99

<kaz> PR 99 - Addressing feedback from Arch call on March 23

<cris_> +1 for Ben's comment

McCool: One proposal mentions specific implementation, better not have it

Kaz: It's odd to have this sentence here because it's another scope list rather than a summary of the following list.

McCool: Consensus on not merging it?

McCool: Closed with a comment on the consensus

McCool: We can add a sentence that emphasize the work on the profile later

Issues

Issue 14

<kaz> Issue 14 - Confusing use of the term "protocol binding"

Ege: There are two alternative PR linked to the issue

McCool: Does it impact the charter or the work-items?

Ege: I think it does not impact the charter

McCool: Doublecheck the charter document for mentions of protocol bindings

McCool: Better remove the link to the wot-binding-templates

McCool: The protocol binding is mentioned in the Charter, some cleanup is needed

McCool: Let's open a PR about it

Kaz: We do not need to mention binding-templates as requirement here, we should rather think about the generic use-case to requirements process, not within this Charter but during the next Charter period work..

McCool: We could also avoid mentioning the architecture document

McCool: Let's open a new PR to check and fix all the mentions to protocol binding

McCool: which kind of bindings do we have?

Ege: we have two way to express profiles, one via protocol-bindings and one via protocols

<cris_> I think is the best we can do, given current constraints

Ege: note that title contains protocols too

McCool: title is fine cause we are mentioning that is it is out of scope

Ege: ok it is fine

McCool: changing Matter protocol binding to simply Matter binding

McCool: was Binding Templates ok as term?

Cristiano: it was controversial too

McCool: any strong objection to merge the changes directly?
… got some technical problems
… it doesn't work
… I'll save them in a local file meanwhile

McCool: it seems a github problem
… I'll create a PR with the edits that we just did later
… we agreed to remove protocol bindings and use lower case letters

McCool: is Issue 98 redundant?

Kaz: we can add it to mission statement or motivation

McCool: maybe motivation is better (is less controversial)

Kaz: agreed

McCool: ok taking the statement and adding it to the charter file

<mc edits the motivation and background section>

McCool: how does it look like?

Ege: do we define SDO somewhere?

McCool: we can say organization

Kaz: that's fine

McCool: creating the PR
… sadly Github has still troubles, saving it for later

<McCool_> <p> Currently the IoT is highly fragmented with a multitude of different standards and ecosystems which often do not easily interoperate. This is a concern as much of the value of the IoT can only be obtained when devices and services from different vendors can be used together. The standards developed by WoT are intended to address this issue by defining additional building blocks to allow systems from di[CUT]

McCool: adding an extra sentence in the mission statement. Industry support is important and we should mention it
… would it be ok? I'm not mentioning profile or discovery by name.

Ege: sounds good to me

+1

McCool: as previous we can't create a PR and I'm coping the proposed text
… I think we are in a good shape (when the proposals will be merged
… then we just need to update the schedule

[adjourned]

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